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The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present,…
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Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for…
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Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.
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I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the…
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This world is painted on a wild dark metal
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There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes.…
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My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.
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Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions?…
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The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once…
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I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white,…
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Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted…
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Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about…
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Ask God for what you want, but you cannot ask if you are not asking for a right thing. When you draw…
— Oswald Chambers
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In Fellowship; alone To God, with Faith, draw near, Approach His Courts, besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.
— Charles Wesley
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The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with…
— John Mott
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Whoever is the first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight... Therefore the…
— Sun Tzu
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We are only safe when we wisely make use of all good advantages that we have access to. By going out of…
— Richard Sibbes
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward…
— Florence Nightingale
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There are times when I draw near enough to touch Him, then I know that He has been there all the time
— Gloria Gaither
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If I am despised by the world, If it considers me as nothing, A divine peace flood me. For I have the…
— Therese of Lisieux
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For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness…
— Pope Paul VI
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The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men…
— Edmund Waller
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Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.
— Saint Augustine
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I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .
— William C. Bryant
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